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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR WEDNESDAY 17TH AUGUST, 2016.



PUNCH
* My message not for everybody — Adeboye
* Budget padding: DSS still at Appropriation Office 18 days after
* No TETFUND grants for private varsities, FG insists
* El-Zakzaky: Buhari studying probe panel’s report – Presidency
* Benue council seeks help for herdsmen attack victims
* PDP convention: We don’t know which judge to obey, says INEC
* N’Delta crisis: Govs, monarchs meet on Friday

THISDAY
* Again, Judges in Show of Shame over PDP Convention
* IBB at 75, Says ‘I’m Not an Evil Genius’
* Buhari Directs NNPC to Search for Oil in Benue Trough
* FG Seeks $7bn to Kick-start Mines, Steel Industry
* 8,000 Boko Haram Members Voluntarily Surrendered, Says Military
* Air Force Says Latest Video by Boko Haram on Chibok Girls is Mischievous
* Insecurity: Wike Urges Hotel Operators to Cooperate with Security Agencies

TRIBUNE
* PDP convention: anxiety over deft moves for anointed chairmanship candidate
* NASS members should work part-time —ibb •says trekking to enugu from umuahia his toughest task in army •i’m not an evil genius, he adds
* INVESTMENTS: we must avoid past mistakes —Buhari
* 4 die after drinking local gin ‘ogogoro’ in ogun
* BOKO HARAM: NAF releases air operations video in sambisa
* Shooting films at tourism sites will boost economy —Mbanefo
* International youth day celebration: Lagos vows to end poverty by 2030

THE SUN
* Nigeria ‘most fractured’ now than any time since civil war –Obasanjo
* Ex-militants storm A’Ibom Govt House, engage security operatives in gun duel
* Robbers raid CBN bullion vans, kill 2 policemen
* Boko Haram: Army rescues 88, kills 3 in Bama, Borno
* Agric, manufacturing sectors to enjoy single digit interest –CBN
* Nigerian bizman killed in Togo: Community appeals to FG for justice
* Anambra community sends SOS to police over cultists attacks

DAILY TRUST
* IBB advocates part time N/Assembly membership
* Fashola warns power investors against profiteering
* FX scarcity: Cargo dropped 50% in first half 2016
* Convention: Court says PDP chieftains risk jail
* Osinbajo urges public officers to return to farm
* Politicians fueling insecurity in Kogi – Attah Igala
* Customs seals MMIA warehouses over hoarding of donkey skins

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